Staff of a major Canadian charity organization told us that almost all of the donations to the Sichuan earthquake relief this time around are from Chinese Canadians, while whites take up only an extremely minimal proportion. However, the same organization did collect outpouring donations from the white community during Katrina and the Indonesia tsunami.
I also heard on News 1130 today that donations aren't going well either to the Burma cyclone relief.
I wonder why? Any guesses?
Meanwhile,
Apple Daily reports that French corporations Louis Vuitton is donating 2 million yuan and Carrifour -- which was in the centre of a popular boycott last month in China -- is donating 3 million.
Coca Cola donates 17.1 million, Kentucky and Pizza Hut donate 15.8 million, and MacDonald's donates 11.5 million.
The top 10 biggest donors are mostly Taiwanese and Hong Kong corporations. Samsung Korea ranks 10th.
There seems to be a race to donate among corporations doing business in China. Same competition can bee seen among Chinese Canadian community organizations, federal and provincial political parties... What a show!
